weekly HaMaggid. Teacher of Persian royalty From that time until his final return to Europe in 1884, Obermeyer often found the opportunity to travel even further through the scenery between the Euphrates and Tigris, and to explore and to extend his knowledge on the Babylonian Talmud. In the meantime the prince Abbas Mirza Mulkara reconciled with his brother and in 1881 returned to Persia. Obermeyer accompanied him first to Kaswin and then to Tehran, where he replaced the teacher in the house of the Persian prince. Teacher in Vienna In 1884 he received an invitation to come to Vienna as a teacher of Arabic and Persian language and literature at the College of Oriental Languages, where he was active until 1915. In 1907 he published the famous work Modern Judaism in East and West (). This work treats with expertise many current problems of the Jewish life, and is filled with special interest to the author of the Tora Devoted () Judaism, in the spirit of which Obermeyer had led his whole life. In 1929, at the age of 84, Obermeyer's life work The Babylonian Landscape in the era of the Talmud and the Gaonate was published. This work is an indispensable reference work on the geography of the Babylonian Talmud. It differs from the work of the predecessors in that apart from the use and support of previous writers of antiquity and Arab geographers and historians, it rests on Obermeyer's personal experience and on his own views of the sites and spots of Babylonia. References Books Die Landschaft Babilonien,1929 Jacob Obermeyer at Google books Modernes Judentum in Morgen- und Abendland in Google Books (table of contents) Other Jacob Obermeyer: 90th Birthday, written by Prof. Dr. Isaac Markon, Hamburg Jacob Obermeyer, Jewish Virtual Library article Rabbi Yoseif Chaim and the Community Journal of the American Oriental Society 126.3 (2006),381 1845 births 1938 deaths Jewish scholars Jewish orientalists People from Bad Kreuznach (district) People from the Rhine Province